Hm - SW do you pay for your flickr account? I'm wondering if you get access to more pictures if you pay for your account. I just can't believe of all those cameras I saw that night there'd be 3 pictures from the show online.

kellysouthpaw wrote:Hm - SW do you pay for your flickr account? I'm wondering if you get access to more pictures if you pay for your account. I just can't believe of all those cameras I saw that night there'd be 3 pictures from the show online.

kellysouthpaw wrote:Hm - SW do you pay for your flickr account? I'm wondering if you get access to more pictures if you pay for your account. I just can't believe of all those cameras I saw that night there'd be 3 pictures from the show online.

Yeah I have a pro account you have to pay for it - you get alot more space.

I think this may be from Austin but as we have no reportage from there I'm not sure. Great pic.

First, to stay on topic: The golden pants made a return for this show! Also, someone yelled "Texan Odyssey!" and the guys made up an impromptu song called, "Take your shirts off, Austin"

Off topic - SW - Does it give you access to everyone's pictures? Because I do a search for the Detroit gig every day and I get like 10 pictures. Only 3 of which are from the show - the rest are pictures of the theater's ceiling and whatnot. I am just wondering if you get special access to pictures with a paid account versus just searching the site

No you don't get special acces to pix. The Detroit show is simply this year's Town Hall (meaning last year very few pix turned up from their first night at Town Hall & virtually no meet and greet pix even though we know there was a M&G right Nancy? )

Well - I'm thinking I'm going to steal some really good pictures from other shows just so I have a nice picture to put in my collage. I have a really good one from the Detroit show with their robot heads on during TMD, but I want a really good one of the three of them on stage. I've found some from other shows, but none from the Detroit one. I'm thinking of using one from Austin (Jemaine's wearing a sweater ), with the rainbow lights from Albi. But I'm not married to this idea...what do you guys think?

Well, that was a rather underwhelming hour and 40 minutes, as Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie took their 1,000-capacity act to the 3,000-seat Bass Concert Hall Thursday night. Because of a hit show on HBO, Flight of the Conchords have inspired a growing cult audience of college-aged kids, but it was evident at the sold out show that theyâ€™ve skipped a few steps up the ladder of stagemanship. This was a crowd with a big crush, but FOTC couldnâ€™t deliver beyond a few charming adlib moments.

A few tunes, including â€œBallad of Stana,â€ an epic old West number â€œwith duration issues,â€ â€œAlbi (the Racist Dragon) and the faux French bossa nova â€˜Foux du fa fa,â€™ were complete wastes of time, as this musical parody duo has been coddled by fan woship. Can that lame â€œBusdriverâ€™s Song,â€ too. This set was in bad need of tightening up.

The main problem was evident early in the set, as â€œThe Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)â€ lost its subtle grace: the vocals were so loud that the guitars were drowned out. â€œJenny,â€ the ode to mistaken identity, was another casualty of a mix that chose comedy over music. Fortunately, those two songs have been so YouTubed into the audienceâ€™s consciousness that they went over spectacularly.

The show was at its funniest when the duo (augmented by â€œthe New Zealand Symphony Orchestra,â€ as their cellist was introduced) conversed between songs in a mix of planned patter and improvisation. Noticing a couple of empty seats in the first row, the pair stared at the tiny defeat, restoring their TV persona as a couple of lovable losers. When a woman arrived 45 minutes into the set to claim one of the seats, Clement and McKenzie made her part of the show, filling her in on what she missed, which was really not much.

It wasnâ€™t until the end of the show that FOTC turned in any kind of interesting performance, leaving their stools to tease â€œthe ladiesâ€ on â€œSugalumpsâ€ and encoring with â€œRobotsâ€ and â€œBusiness Time.â€ There was also a funny bit about how the audience, which kept throwing t-shirts onstage, shouldâ€™ve been tossing panties. There was delight in the deadpan all night.

But then they came out for one encore too many, a throwaway â€œDemon Womanâ€ that they had no business dressing up in costumes. When Clement apologized to those who â€œwere relieved that we were overâ€ he was speaking to me.

Comedian Eugene Mirman, who has a small recurring role in â€œFlight of the Conchords,â€ opened the show with a too loud set that hinged on an angry letter he wrote to Delta Airlines. They may have lost his luggage, but they gave him a funny bit.